Lupe Fiasco Freestyle at EMU 10/29/07

[cvillian7]

People peep the date and have in mind if u bought the cool album it was back in dec 07

[Fittslz81]

LUPE FIASCO IS A FUCKING MAN

[EssenceEgan]

the last lines were a Gwendolyn Brooks poem! that's sick.

[freshprince58]

oh my god...im at a lost for words..that was like, poetry!!

[tubetime3]

Poetical 

[iammoonwizdomous]

this dude, holy shit, this nigguh the best.

[iammoonwizdomous]

this dude, holy hsit, this nigguh the best.

[Mastershakedeez]

the cooliest nigga what

[eleckson]

Not a freestyle...still the shit though.

[ssshines]

I was there and remember that shit, everybody was mezmorized and at a loss for words. The flo was so complex students didn't grasp it til they left the room

[daydreamin09]

@ssshines didn't he tell the students it was a freestyle...?

[GB260]

the coolest nigga what

[dhooot]

Rumor has it he recit's them all without the beat first and then they put the beat under it.

[TalkImagery651]

this is from the coolest song, but lupe such a good performer

[johncp1989]

never said it wasn't, all i said is its not a freestyle.....chill out brah its youtube.

[billilac09]

type in B-Lac-Hard body freestyle and tell me what u think i would really appreciate it my user name is billilac09 DONT SLEEP.

[johncp1989]

and this isnt a freestyle. this is off his album, "the coolest"

[johncp1989]

dang im close to that school, I wish i was there

[ReAlNeRd1]

lol he kt syin coolest niqqa wa haha lupe crazi best rppa in the gme he ge no recognition at all like omg he beta den drake wayne all dem wack mainstream rappers out dere mane he deservs 2 b recognized as one of the bet in the game done period he a legend mane

[mamadouthemaster]

helll yahhh

[weglobal123456789]

i loved how he walked and looked into everyones eyes

[Carleeezy]

not a freestyle but still a lyrical God

[foodog12345678910]

ummm this is a song on his album .....

[o0CASHBOY0o]

@foodog12345678910 yea it's cause he did at the mic. Meaning he didn't right down the words.

[foodog12345678910]

@o0CASHBOY0o Well its HIS song so i dntthink it'd be ht hard to memorize it 0_o

[Luuch1]

search GAME TIME 20:10

[sTaTiChIphOp]

he said "a match made in heaven set the fires in hell" hott

[nike6661]

THAT HAD SOUL MAN, bravo, lupe still needs to stay in the game

[ambreeezzy]

whys it sayy freestyle.

[jayc91]

lupe has the dope wordplay. hes in my top 5, probably top 3

[Over9000SuckIt]

holyy shittt, "the coolest" was a freestyle

he is G.O.A.T

[common11sense]

This. Is. Poetry.

[ironcheferu]

This isn't freestyle... It's "The Coolest" it's one of his songs

[EarBudz123]

everybodys like "wtf is he talkin about????" lol

[y0ungsiir]

@EarBudz123 lmao

[HipHopMeditating]

He's down to earth. That's cool (wait that's the name of the album). He impressive but not on Mos Def or Braille or MF Doom or Canibus or NaS level yet. He'll get there though. Just give him more time.

[franciso7]

ahahhaahhahaha

oh man you dont know shit...you didnt even get this lines right here

[HipHopMeditating]

@franciso7 Dude. I have MY opinions. I know he is great. But he hasn't come out with CLASSICS therefore he cannot be considered better than those with CLASSICS. Mos Def is better than Lupe Fiasco. Lyrically and Technically. Ohhh great lines. I've heard better. You probably don't listen to much Hip-Hop if you're easily impressed by thisline. It's good but I KNOW better.

[franciso7]

lol...ima hihop fan

i said you didnt get the line....well it would be clever to explain the line in your response wouldnt it?

there is no question about the legend status...and no..this line isnt everything i know from Lupe..lol..but you mabe.technically....if you would ask Lupe he would totally agree with you....but lyrically there is room for a debate...i would never start that debate since mos is a legend.;so you cant compare....but you obviously dont know much about lupe

[HipHopMeditating]

@franciso7 lol if you went to my page you would know that Lupe Fiasco is in my top 5 favorite lyricist of all time. This line he spitting isn't just one meaning. I know he is lyrically amazing. And no this isn't the only thing I know from Lupe. I have his first Album F&L which is Lyrically a Classic but because the Productions was not a Classic and the Rapping wasn't a Classic I couldn't possibly consider the Album a Classic. What I'm saying is he needs to up the Production and Flow.

[franciso7]

Well thats a clear message.And as i already tried to explain it to you:Lupe himself would agree with you.

So its not like he dont know.

However your last comment was also attacking Lupes lyrics and thats what my reply was about.

[HipHopMeditating]

Well you do know Mos Def is top ten lyricist all time right....so I wasn't necessarily attacking him lol

[EarBudz123]

@HipHopMeditating ur insane.

[kuggle7]

This is from his second album The Cool so it makes sense to think its a freestyle cuz if u look at the date this was uploaded in october and the cool came out in december

[franciso7]

its not a freestyle man...it has a clear consept..how the fuck can he invent that story

so quickly

[Da1UHideFrom]

@kuggle7 Artist write songs months before the album comes out

[laderrius1]

he's like a rebirth of biggie smalls

hes tha greatest and all yall haters stop ridin his dick

[THAxViLLAiN]

Good shit

[huntard10]

this isnt a freestyle so annoying i hate when people say shit is a free style when it aint and if you havent heard this b4 then you obviously dont listen to lup much

[MRTOOKOOLFORSKOOL]

it's tight when rappers make themselves approachable

[LoveAllDoWrong2None]

the coolest nigga what

[Stlunknown66]

thats from the coolest

[MrAllofme]

She is the streets these lyrics are in the song titled the coolest there are characters that go along with the concept of the cool and the women has dollar signs for eyes that's why he says her eyes glow green with the logo of our dreams .

[chocotree42]

thankyou!!!!!!!!! someone understands!

kudos too u, for real!

[cejafoo93]

Damn thats the rap we need in main stream cuz wayne and soulja boy and kanye all garbage no body is they self today

[danreynumero1]

at first i thought this song was about a girl but now i realize its about H.E.R.

[youngie246]

who or whats H.E.R?

[DarkFlare91]

i think she is da streets

[spongballsinmymouth]

The coolest!

[vepulan7]

hes reciting an acapella of the song called

The Coolest

[WoWbomber]

the coolest

[YouAintNoGangstah66]

The COOLEST NIGGA WHAT

[yeaboymanidude]

the coolest

[lookalooey]

oww...this nigguh with 1 verse can shatter ur way of thinkin and put ya ass in an asylum lol. crazy wit dem lyrics.

hes a MC and a poet wit it lol

[718ufo]

heall yeah its going on youtube

[GCODE125]

Not a freestyle.. Most of the lyrics was on his album "The Cool". It is clearly lupe fiasco was in progress with his album when this was posted on youtube. But this is not a freestyle

[prodigyy213]

BEST RAPPER ALIVE not just from watchin this video

[joe2cool4mvp]

"We sing sin,

We thin jin,

We jazz june,

We die soon....."

that was from a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks.....

[calikidcurlZ]

This came out before he even made the cd butt lick

[thizzinda415]

wtf dis is jst the song off the cool called the coolest. fukn retard get ure lupe info rite

[nosiriwonthaveapples]

You get ur lupe info right.

[Demienen69]

Not a free style

[frkye]

Wasn't suppose to be, just reciting the lyrics.

[Demienen69]

That is exactly the point i was making, the title claims its a freestyle... which we know is not true, he is simply reciting the coolest, which is not a freestyle

[yezzer19]

Now that is blasephamy 'I love the lord , but sometimes it seems that I love me more' , in a sense if he means that he is a man of whims rather then a man of religion I understand . But then contradicting myself you cant love urself with out loving the lord.

[franciso7]

oh u didnt understand...i guess you believe in God...so try to stay loyal to him...but since we all are human....i also guess that u make mistakes...mabe even a lot.sometimes we just behave in a dumb way...but think about some mistakes u ve done...some sins are related to our egoism.mabe we let our self guide by our desires or our emotion,so we put them over gods law...

yes indeed in those moments...he said it well..."it SEEMS" that we love ourselfs more.

by the way is talkin about a caracter

[inmylifetime]

rofl @ "this going on youtube?

"Hell Ya"

[IzPrez]

a match from heaven set the fire in hell... wow shit.

[jessemp3]

exactly, people need to stop getting written shit mixed up with freestyles. fucking shit drives me crazy, everytime someone hears someone spit a fucking rhyme they say freestyle. did u hear him freestyling. get your shit straight dumbfucks and understand a freestyle is off the top not written never said or thought of before. fucks.

[bently103]

whated he say at the end in that different languge

[daydreamin09]

he didnt speak in a different language he recited a pom.

[Manawanga]

Dope but the song is sarcastic and it seems the audience took him literally. He is trying to talk abut how people sacrifice their souls to be cool. But everyone is so compromised these days they don't see the sarcasm they like those notions.

[franciso7]

welll u got to say tho that at that time the album wasnt out...i would never understand that song if i didnt know a thing about the cool story...i first thought this was a love song

[coltonsarlo]

this is not a freestly its called "the Coolest " by lupe just and accop- you homo

[grayme28]

What the heck does he say at 3:16 to 3:30?

[citrusdrop12]

Freestyle aka Lyrics from The Coolest.

FYRE!

[kingofkleen1]

this isent a freestyle its a song from lupe fiasco look it up

[mazer2006]

This is from sunshine right?

[TrickTrick1993]

nope the coolest man

[ricoisawesome]

go on wikipedia and read about the album now i can understand most of his songs. thanks

Duckyej84

[Duckyej84]

look up the actual meaning and story behind this album. it's really interesting.

[Brost31]

I never realized how awesome this verse was until he slowed it down

[mohamedm110]

lupe is sick, cant no body rap like him...FNF UP

[zachster25]

best rapper alive...hands down

[mjmfootprints]

"Pray to God that the floods subside and you gon' need a sub 'till He does reply and not one of Jared's...."(Talking about Jared from Subway)---UNBELIEVABLE

[ejdubbs]

dude is ill

[NoPhame]

"If the rain stops and everything is dry she would cry just so i could drink the tears from her eyes."

One of the sickest lines Ive ever heard....

[lm1991]

even sicker when you hear real recognize real from before this song.

"Hennessey tears, ass'll bring ya enemy's here

Flirt wit her flaws till you run up in her raw "

[suppawill]

dam dis nigga sed" a mach made in heaven sed the fires in hell" he is as good as 2pac if u disagrre u dont kno rap nigga

[jpizzy2222]

this isnt freestyle this is the coolest

[prodigyy213]

WHO ever said lil wayne is better is a fucking gay wayne dick sucker....lupe is the shit top 5 alive starting with jay z ending with eminem u deside the rest...

[frkye]

Wouldn't start with Jay-Z. He's a businessman first then an mc nowadays. I wouldn't say that's staying true to the game, he's ill don't get me wrong, but not #1 that's for sure. I would put Nas on top of the list. Maybe even Lupe on top, he came up on his own even when Jay offered him a deal, he still didn't wanna take it. And THAT is what staying true to the game. Never for the fame, only for the game.

[marcooceguedaisapimp]

shit was dope,but lil wayne is better

[misskitoko]

hhahhahha

[HyperKrazy101]

hahahaha...u funny

[klingstuh]

Dude, nice. Wish I was there, live about 30 minutes from eastern.

[wikkedchik90]

gwen brooks drop!

[YoungFinesse03]

What a lot of catz dont realize is many rappers spit freestlyes and then later turn their freestyles into verses on a track.

Look at Lil Wayne or Kanye West. Lil Wayne got freestyles on Rap City and such that are later on one of his albums. Watch some of Kanyes Def Poetry where hes spittin All Falls Down before his album was out..

I dont doubt that this was a freestyle..but i can see where people would say this a pre written with how his flow is so fluent.

[bathinghippo]

no, it's not a freestyle.  he writes all his lyrics for his albums. do you realize that some people have flyers for The Cool album in their hands? So the song was already complete.

[KaineMadness09]

hes still the man,. written or not, that actual song izz dope, n i hope 2 c him on more things, such as the basement, or def poetry (which have been canceled for no reason)

[ThisVlDSucks]

This wasn't a freestyle, it's part of the Michael Young History story where he falls in love with The Streets.

[bathinghippo]

whoever says this is a freestyle is retarded.

this is from the song The Coolest. just because there's not music doesn't make it a freestyle. it's just acapella. dumb shits.

[scarfaceJR13]

wtf SuicidaliQakaSiQ!!

a Freestyle is either OFF DA TOP BUT, u can throw in lines dat has been either written, or prethought, da whole THING IS NOT WRITTEN. So get your facts right kid

[KrishanKSharma]

the end woz diff.

[SoSoGraciouS]

lupe is the sickest out right now..his last album is about to be the dopest.

[psfrag26]

the line with the tears was sick

[Soldier13]

This was no freestyle, it's of "the cool" album. It's called the Coolest. One of the most, if not the central track of the whole album. It`s a whole comic-book ish type storyline.

[XthestreetsX]

hes ment to be suffering with confidence issues thats one of the reasons why hes retiring. strange

[KemarG33]

every vein every vessele every bullet lodged

my god

[youngpettie1]

This is from the Coolest not a freestyle...SICK SONG THOUGH

[SuicidaliQakaSiQ]

It's a freestyle because he's spittin' it without the script infront of him and no beat. It's just a memorized free. But most freestyles are. A lot of rappers act like they freestyle off the dome but most times they've written it down. Look at artists like Big L, Eminem, and even Biggie when he was just startin' out. Anyway, a TRUE freestyle would be off the dome, but in the beginning of rap they were all memorized free's for the most part.

[yungwolf31]

that would make every song that u hear at a concert is a freestyle its not a freestlye

[SuicidaliQakaSiQ]

No. Because a SONG consists of verses AND a hook that is repeated between those verses. If you've ever watch any old school rapper in an interview you'll usually hear them talk about how they would write their verses at home then spit them in a cypher after memorizing them line for line. The original definition of a freestyle back in the day was spitting verses that had been previously written, memorized, then used in battles, cyphers, etc.. So yes it IS a freestyle.

[NigerianPrince732]

wrong. not all songs have a hook.

[FlashCLownP]

Well I heard that Lupe freestyles THEN puts them on his album. So possibly the Verse was freestyled then he made it into a song.

Think about that.

[emporer93]

Genius Poetry

[takauthar]

ain't no problem with the lyrics or the song,but don't advertise a written as a freestyle. 2 much of that goin on nowadays. WRITTEN'S R NOT FREESTYLES!!.just another way 4 fake muthafukas 2 look legit.

[ogweazal]

its the exact same lyrics as the the track "the coolest" but as other people have said why should it matter whether its freestyle or not its the words and the message behind it that matters and no one can dispute that on this track lupe's lyrical content would slay any other rapper.

fuck it any of lupe's tracks could

so who gives a fuck if its fucking freestyle or not

not me

and not lupe

and certainly not mahatmagahndi

[cenatown]

no! did this came out before the album The Cool came out

he also said that he freestyled half of it

[soulmman]

When did he say that?

[WhersTheFire7]

oh yea, this came out in 2007, and the cool was released in 08, but idk when he wrote the coolest, so this could be a freestyle

[YoRone22]

The Cool was released in 07. Nice try though.

[WhersTheFire7]

either way, the cool was released on december 18, and this video was october 29, therefore its still before.

[muzikfeind9]

no the song the coolest started out as a freestyle buh he made it into a track... this freestyle was b4 the cool... a whole year b4

[WhersTheFire7]

yea, thats wat i was saying.

[connorbcfc1875]

A real genius

[capitalc123]

this aint  no freestyle its a song off the album the cool

track 4 i think the coolest

"besides its way to complicated for anione to even think it was a freestyle to begin with:S"

[lilmissIsis]

haha for real, wayyy to complicated. but its still fuckin deep.

[CCrestTheMusician]

lupe freestyles alottz hiz stuff i thinkk it iz, besides Jay Z freestyles this raw 2, he freestyled it, an he did this b4 tha cd came out bru, an hez rymin slower then he did on tha song, so he can takke time ta thinkk, ha ha !!!

C Crest

[DarkHermit212]

u idiot this was a freestyle,he used these lyrics in the coolest,check the date man

[wikkedchik90]

match made in heaven set the fires in hell...the end was substituted with the poem "we real cool" by gwendolyn brooks...damn thats a high school throwback

[NSO82]

a match made in heaven

making fires in hell

[inprospectsdrear]

who gives a fuck if it's not free it's releveent as hell and you can't talk nothing from lupe just cause he didn't male it up on spot

[TruthIsWatISeek]

this aint no Freestyle it might of ben at one time but not in this vid

[ejikeanyanwu]

Just because the album or the song itself wasn't released, doesn't mean he hadn't already put pen to paper. It was just a few months before the release. It's possible that this is a freestyle, but i doubt it he could have done that all off head. But then again, this is the mind of Lupe.

[FRANKENMANWOLFENSTEI]

nah, the coolest was a freestyle before he recorded it the cool, and this was before the cool. so, there.

[efrankl1]

Chamillionaire and Lupe need to make a track together. N Lupe don't retire; you're too real to the rap game

[DoLaMaCk]

the whole thing is from the coolest you fools

[dylanjaxxon]

1) this isnt a freestyle i dont think... it The Coolest of LF's The Cool..

2)this whole song is a metaphor for... well... u figure it out :)

[wikkedchik90]

lol u got a thumbs down ahahah..jk

[BboyMisterE]

1st verse of the coolest

[wikkedchik90]

yo my man lupe came out with the gwendolyn brooks we real cool...

[Da1YouHideFrom]

Not a freestyle but still dope

[djkrzysko]

My ManZ! The best young hip hop artist out. An urban Poet for the history books

[africonaamericono]

this is why i love lupe! you can never catch

lil wayne are sombody eles doing this. his lyrics mean something....and CCrestTheMusician it took me forever to figure out what the hell you are saying because you have bad grammar and english.

and when i finshed it still did not make any sense. and your going to make a singnature like you know what you are talking about.

wtf??....w/e

[tryingsomethingne]

shed no tear, when we're not here, and keep your faith, as we chase, the cool

[BPHLATTT]

the point of the song is a storyline goto his website its a character called the streetz thts who hes tlkin bout a zombie called the cool and the game now listen to his lyrics

[CCrestTheMusician]

the she hez talkkin bout his queen itz weed an tha 2nd vers iz about his rieghn or how eva i spell it tha otha version of rain that na tha en of tha 2nd iz mainly about him an tha 3rd iz like wut the Cool doz ta u an The Cool is like a devil or sumthin basicly tha thing that makkz us do bad thingz u kno yea ha ha !!! Al n al this one of my favorite songz by him

C Crest

[pho4life]

wow ur the biggest fucking retard ever. none of that made sense at all. i was not able to understand any of ur gibberish. that is not wat the song means u idiot. please stop listening to lupe and trying to decipher what the lyrics mean

[CCrestTheMusician]

man its soun cold akkapella he changd tha end on tha album tho i thinkk it soundz betta n Aribic ha ha !!! i like that ha ha !!!

[luvnwar23]

I luv it that when ever lupe performs this song he sings it accapella to make tha real point kum thru

[oldschooda]

a low key, what is the point he is making in this song???

[luvnwar23]

THa point is to make u understand the story better because without the beat youll pay attention to the words more. thus u tget tha song 2 tha full extent

:)

[YUNGRIZZO713]

Gyea!!!

[BL00DM4N]

This is mos def a freestyle. Daydreamin was a freestyle set to another song. So dont hate the pimp keep it simp. Peace!

[claimer4]

THE COOLEST!!!

dis song is too Great

[chronic54321]

lupe made a song from a cipher on BET && came out with it as a song too

[BRANDON85L]

SO!

[KingJon2]

he did this before the album dropped. about 2 months before if i remember correctly

[BxyoungscrapPy7o0]

I heard this already off 1 of his albums i think the Cool... This aint new